In recent years, there have been conflicts with local residents in Japan over issues such as landscape and disaster risk caused by the construction of solar-PV facilities. In order to promote the suitable installation of solar-PV facilities in the future, it is necessary to clarify resident attitudes toward such facilities, not only in the planning stage but also in operation. In this research, a questionnaire survey was conducted among local residents living near a solar-PV facility in operation (that had had conflicts in the planning stage) at Mt. Tsukuba, in Tsukuba city. In addition, a model of resident attitude formation toward the facility was constructed and its determinants were clarified. As a result, it was found that the felt annoyance due to landscape change had a statistically significant relationship with the negative attitude to the project. Moreover, it was also demonstrated that the installation in Mt. Tsukuba was a significant correlated factor with the felt annoyance due to landscape change. The analysis confirms that it is important to avoid installation in mountainous forests of special value to residents, such as Mt. Tsukuba, in order to improve the acceptance from local communities toward solar-PV projects.

Public theaters have been established by local governments, during the last 20^th century in particular, in the hope to provide the opportunity of high-quality art to local populace and play an important role in local cultural promotion. However increasingly they face difficulties to host stages of the state of art due to the outdated facilities. Under a great pressure to contribute to the local community and fulfill the accountability for renovation, it is an important policy issue how to utilize these aging facilities. Considering a new concept of the role of theaters as an “open space” for assembly of local residents, this paper tries to explore the incentive and motivation of residents’ visitation to the theaters. Taking the case of a typical local theater, Kobe Bunka Hall in Hyogo Pref. built in 1973, which attracts nearly 600,000 visitors a year before COVID 19, we found that residents visit the theater not only to attend high art performances but also for their own cultural activities such as practicing workshops and attending seminars. Multiple regression indicates that the availability of these cultural activities in a broad sense, rather than the specific profile of the attendees—age, gender, and profession—increases the number of repeating visits, which implies the alternative important role of the theater to host various amateur activities and serve as a local cultural hub for wider population.